Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of ...

It was 60 years ago, on November 3, 1957, that Laika—an 11-lb ... The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified ...

What happened between the time Sputnik launched in 1957 and 1961? “A lot of the [space] activity ... then go up to Warminster for a battery of tests simulating space flight. Michael Maguire, president ...

Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann looks back at the Soviet launch of the satellite in 1957, and President ... the first manned space flight project, and appropriating funds for the National ...

On 4 October 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik - the first man-made object in space. As the Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth it sent back a radio signal that was picked up around the world.

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." ...

The Reusable Revolution Since the first satellites were put into orbit with Sputnik in 1957, to the 1969 Moon landing, the 1971 first space station, and the 2001 first space tourist, all access to ...